Question

Use the chart to answer the following question:

The chart shows what goods were sent where during the Atlantic slave trade. Africa sent slaves to the Americas. The Americans sent raw materials to Europe. Europe sent manufactured goods to Africa.

Which statement is best supported by the chart? (4 points)

The American colonies could not survive without slavery.
Slavery was a profitable part of the triangular trade.
European nations were most responsible for slavery.
The slave trade was most beneficial to African leaders.

Answer 1

The statement best supported by the chart is B. Slavery was a profitable part of the triangular trade.

How to conclude this on slavery?

This conclusion can be drawn from the chart's depiction of the Atlantic slave trade, where Africa sent slaves to the Americas, and in return, the Americans sent raw materials to Europe.

The triangular trade system was driven by economic motives, and the chart illustrates that the exchange of enslaved people was a central and profitable component of this system.

The flow of goods in the chart clearly highlights the economic transactions involved in the trade, reinforcing the idea that slavery played a significant and profitable role in the triangular trade.

Answer 2

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The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The majority of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa that had been sold by other West Africans to Western European slave traders, while others had been captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids; Europeans gathered and imprisoned the enslaved at forts on the African coast and then brought them to the Americas. Except for the Portuguese, European slave traders generally did not participate in the raids because life expectancy for Europeans in sub-Saharan Africa was less than one year during the period of the slave trade. The South Atlantic and Caribbean economies were particularly dependent on labour for the production of sugarcane and other commodities. This was viewed as crucial by those Western European states which, in the late 17th and 18th centuries, were vying with one another to create overseas empires.

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